Dread Quotes · Page 11

“She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch…

— Charles Dickens

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

— Jeanette Winterson

“When you can classify something, it helps pin it down into a thing you can handle instead of a nameless dread.”

— Megan Kearney

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John…

— Max O'Rell

When Obama dispenses with that dread sobriquet 'professorial,' he does it by being, well, more professorial.

— Tina Brown

“How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?”

— Stephen Carpenter

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

— Edith Wharton

“A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt”

— Ashley Jeffery

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want…

— Yanni

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and…

— Nina Dobrev

I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if…

— Ned Kelly

“We might as well get started. Help to pass the timey-wimey. Do you have to talk like children? What is it that…

— Warrior Doctor

I do not argue that nature is sacrosanct in the sense that we must never tamper with nature. That would disempower, really,…

— Michael Sandel

Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then…

— Camille Paglia

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different…

— Amos Oz

Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of…

— Robert Helpmann

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat…

— John Green

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it…

— James Boswell

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me…

— David Foster Wallace

Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The LORD your God who goes before you…

— Anonymous

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with…

— Samuel Johnson

What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it…

— Isaac Marion

“...and dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street outside.”

— Norman Mailer

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.

— Baz Luhrmann

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it…

— Joan Baez

We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death.

— Jean de la Bruyere

These are the tears ~~ The tears we shed ~~ This is the fear ~~ This is the dread ~~ These are…

— Annie Lennox

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

— Bertrand Russell

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without…

— Tom Jones

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

— William Shakespeare

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.

— Jason Isbell

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”

— N.K. Jemisin

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

— John le Carre

“It stopped when we tried to prove it existed, like a secret that doesn’t want to be believed.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

— Toni Morrison

I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter

— Jeff Lindsay